With a potential super-fight at stake for 2013, Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya admits he is nervous about Miguel Cotto's upcoming challenge of WBA "regular" junior middleweight champion Austin Trout.

De La Hoya is already mulling a mouth-watering clash between Cotto and WBC champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez for next year's Cinco De Mayo weekend. A loss by Cotto would split those plans in two. Trout, even with a victory over Cotto, would not generate close to the same amount of money as a match between Cotto and Canelo. For that reason, De La Hoya doesn't like the danger involved with Cotto taking on a hungry, undefeated champion. [Click Here To Read More]

I feel you Oscar, I mean God forbid your paper champ fight any legit young opponents. You know, the young guys that are in his divisioin just waiting for their shot, guess they'll just have to stick to eliminators huh

I feel you Oscar, I mean God forbid your paper champ fight any legit young opponents. You know, the young guys that are in his divisioin just waiting for their shot, guess they'll just have to stick to eliminators huh

Perhaps there lies the possibility that Cotto annihilates Trout in an impressive fashion and Oscar gets especially more nervous which causes him to then opts to match his cash cow against those contenders.

I feel you Oscar, I mean God forbid your paper champ fight any legit young opponents. You know, the young guys that are in his divisioin just waiting for their shot, guess they'll just have to stick to eliminators huh

I think he's genuinely nervous, as he doesn't want to lose a possible Cotto-Canelo fight down the line which would be HUGE.